The Georgia Assembly passed an Act of Attainder and Banishments
and Confiscation on August 19, 1783. This meant in effect that property of British
Loyalist would be taken for the State Treasury. The individuals would be banished
from Georgia. Their Civil Rights under the law were attained or voided. The
list was published The Assembly of the State of Georgia in the Savannah newspaper,
(Georgia Gazette). See newspaper story at the bottom of the page.

The List of names has been placed in alphabetical order for
easy research
as opposed to how it originally appeared in the public notice.

Georgia Revolutionists were fierce in keeping the British at bay in Georgia.
My 4th great-grandfather, Capt. John Cutler Braddock, as a galley commander
was one of the fiercest. There were many other Georgians, however, who, by dictate
of conscience, chose to remain Loyal to the Crown.

You may be surprised to learn that Benjamin Franklin's son was a staunch
Loyalist. They paid dearly for their loyalty.

On August 19, 1783, the Assembly of the State of Georgia passed an Act
of Attainder, Banishments and Confiscation that took from all known
Loyalists, property they held in Georgia and banished them from the state. Most
fled to the British province of East Florida and from there to England and to
British held islands in the Caribbean, primarily the Bahamas. Notice of the
Act was published in the Georgia Gazette followed by a list of 229 names of
Georgia Loyalists.

The list included the last Royal Governor of Georgia, Sir James Wright, Lt.
Gov. John Graham, and members of their council along with all other officials
of the displaced government. Many on the list went on to become successful leaders
in their places of exile. One such man was William Lyford Jr., uncle to the
aforesaid John Cutler Braddock. He received several large grants in the Bahamas
for his service to British naval operations in the Southeast and for being one
of the planners and participants of Col. Andrew DeVeaux's famous raid that drove
the Spanish from Nassau in 1783. The exclusive residential resort Lyford Cay,
home of international best-selling author Arthur Hailey and actor Sean Connery,
is located on one of the Grants.

List of Loyalists Banished from Georgia-1783

The Assembly of the State of Georgia published a list of men banished from the
state in the Savannah newspaper, now back to its old name the Georgia Gazette.
The notorious McGirt brothers, who appear in many accounts of Revolutionary
War action in the South as being instrumental in thwarting Georgian and Continental
attempts to invade Florida some accounts spelling it McGirth are on the list.
Strangely, some few on it were on lists published earlier by the British:

GEORGIA,House of Assembly, 15th July, 1783
ORDERED, That his Honour the Governor and Council be recommended and
requested to transmit to the Executive and Legislative Powers or Departments,
in every State on the United States, a List of Persons named in their Laws
so that, by this correspondence, each State may know, or be informed
from Time
to Time, what is done by each State relative to those Persons so proscribed.
Extract from the Minutes,

PURSUANT to the foregoing order of the Honourable the House of Assembly,
passed at Augusta on the Fifteenth July last past, the following Persons
are named within our Act of Attainder, Banishments and Confiscation, and
stood proscribed on that Day.
By Order of his Honour the Governor in Council,
D. REES, Sec'y. Ex. Council

A LIST of Persons on the Bill of Attainder, Banishment and Confiscation,
passed at Augusta, in the State of Georgia, on the Fourth Day of May, which
was in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Two, and
of our Sovereignty and Independence the Sixth, to wit:

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